Definition of weekly in English:

weekly

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adjective

attributive

1Done, produced, or occurring once a week.
‘there was a weekly dance on Wednesdays’
- ‘They will be required to attend for personal tutorial on an approximately once weekly basis.’
- ‘Some planned events will be featured on a weekly basis once the centre is open.’
- ‘Once you devise a weekly plan, write out each workout at least a day in advance.’
- ‘There were also weekly dances at that time in the Town Hall.’
- ‘The weekly market dance was cancelled because of rain, so I didn't have to go to that.’
- ‘Irish dancing classes are held weekly in the school free of charge.’
- ‘In the last 20 years, large sections of the population have lost the ability to cook simple dishes once served up on a weekly basis.’
- ‘She once gave me a break by running a weekly column by me when she was editor of the Financial Post.’
- ‘There are weekly pool tournaments on a Thursday.’
- ‘I believe it would be more beneficial to have four tutorials a term accompanied by a compulsory weekly discussion class.’
- ‘With a weekly Scottish Mirror column and the second run of her own Radio Scotland show in the pipeline, you wonder how she finds the time.’
once a week, seven-day
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1. 1.1Relating to or calculated in terms of a week.
  ‘the difference in weekly income is $290’
  ‘To work out if you are eligible for the Pension Credit, you need to calculate your weekly income, after deductions and savings.’
  ‘I can see this in terms of the weekly web server statistics that I monitor.’
  ‘Willetts has calculated that around a third of this additional weekly income will be clawed back in many cases.’
  ‘In real terms, average weekly earnings for young people declined sharply over the same 10 years.’
  ‘The burglar had probably heard she had been saving for years from her paltry weekly income, to leave something for her grandchildren.’
  ‘People in Berwick-upon-Tweed, in the North East, have the lowest average weekly incomes at 302.’
  ‘A couple with two children whose weekly income is at or below 334 may qualify.’
  ‘She said that Mitchell, who had moved since the assault, had a weekly income of £37.50 and a number of debts.’
  ‘Even with a weekly income of $300, they decided to continue to live in the back room.’
  ‘This promises all pensioners a basic weekly income above the state pension.’
  ‘He is likely to be entitled to the Savings credit if, as a single person, his total weekly income is less than £139 a week.’
  ‘The money he receives from the government is a big part of his family's weekly income - and they cannot do without it.’
  ‘Payments are usually made once a month but single or low income parents can claim weekly payments.’
  ‘There is also a change to the way in which weekly contributions are calculated for the self-employed.’
  ‘For years she surmounted her weekly shortfall by pooling her income and expenses with Elsa.’
  ‘I was reviewing television for the New Statesman on a weekly basis and that was basically my income.’
  ‘I'd also like to see London theatres being upfront for once by publishing their weekly takings.’
  ‘It is understood the company was losing money on a weekly basic and they found this to be unsustainable in the long term.’

Pronunciation

weekly

/ˈwēklē/ /ˈwikli/

adverb

Once a week.
‘interviews were given weekly’
- ‘I checked nests at least weekly and usually daily around the supposed time of laying and hatching.’
- ‘Once weekly it presents a critique of the week's news items as portrayed by the print, film and radio media.’
- ‘What you should consider is giving up the cigarettes and trying to walk for 30 minutes three times weekly.’
- ‘Charter flights will be taking about 1,000 Slovenians weekly, until the end of the season.’
- ‘There will be jazz sessions weekly for July and August so don't miss out.’
- ‘Originally, the recommended levels were 21 units weekly for men and 14 for women.’
- ‘The programme is for four nights once weekly, mid February to mid March.’
- ‘The ship carries up to 1,200 tonnes down to Ayrshire once or twice weekly.’
- ‘They hold Cabinet meetings there once weekly and it is in continual use for functions.’
- ‘You'll weight train twice weekly, once as your only exercise for that day and once on the same day as a run.’
- ‘Milk was sampled once weekly at all three milkings and composited for each cow.’
once a week, every week, each week, on a weekly basis
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Pronunciation

weekly

/ˈwēklē/ /ˈwikli/

nounplural noun weeklies

A newspaper or periodical issued every week.
‘Journalists from dailies averaged 5.5, and journalists from weeklies averaged 5.4.’
- ‘There are many tabloid weeklies in Hong Kong and how many can I read?’
- ‘‘We always said when we went into newspapers, we would concentrate on weeklies rather than dailies,’ he said.’
- ‘In some markets, weeklies or monthlies picked up the comic after dailies dropped it.’
- ‘They were in the local daily paper or the weeklies.’
- ‘Both journals are international weeklies, but Science has a higher circulation within the United States and so is often preferred by United States scientists.’
- ‘He owns a personal library which receives several Urdu dailies, weeklies and monthlies published in different parts of the country.’
- ‘It was long accepted that reporters, and even the editors of some country weeklies, would be much more poorly paid than the printers who produced their papers.’
- ‘I only have experience as a stringer for a daily and a freelancer for magazines and weeklies.’
- ‘It was one of the few weeklies that carried reports from all the colonies.’
- ‘As of the 2002 count, there were 1,457 daily newspapers in the country and about 6,699 weeklies.’
- ‘Sethi is the editor of the Daily Times and the leading Pakistani weekly The Friday Times.’
- ‘Everybody disagreed with him, apart from the British weekly The Economist.’